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magnificating

magnificating is the present participle and gerund of magnificate.

Meaning of magnificate

Verb

magnificate (third-person singular simple present magnificates, present participle magnificating, simple past and past participle magnificated)

  1. To magnify or extol.
    • [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-up Lumpe of Barmy froth, / […] / Or Clumſy Chil-blain'd Iudgement; that, vvith Oath, / Magnificates his Merit; and beſpaules / The conſcious Time, vvith humorous Fome; & bravvles, / As if his Organons of...1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii

Questions about magnificating

What is magnificating the present participle and gerund of?
Magnificating is the present participle and gerund of magnificate.

Words near magnificating in the dictionary

  1. Magnificat
  2. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
  3. magnificate
  4. magnificated
  5. magnificates
  6. magnificating
  7. magnification
  8. magnifications
  9. magnificative
  10. magnificence
  11. magnificences

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